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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01
MYSTERIOUS MURDER
An Old Man Shot Dead While
Conversing With his
Family.
The Assassin Supposed to Be
the Only Son of the
Victim.
A Southern Bluebeapd Con-
fesses to the Killing Of
Three Wives.
The Fidelity Bank Case
Jake Sharp an Imbecile--
An Anarchist Yelp.

EGREENFIELD, Mass, Nov. 3O.-David
Randall, of Turner Falls, a gardener,
proprietor of fruit farm, was shot and
killed last night while sitting by win
dow in his house. The charge was
from shotgun fired outside the house.
The mystery surrounding the murder
deepens. The entire lack of any known
motive forms subject of the deepest
perplexity. The victim was showing
the occupants of the room lot of eggs
he had bought, when suddenly stun
ming explosion occurred and a section of
the lamp shade fell. The family thought
at first that the lamp had exploded.
The victim after the explosion still sat
in his chair, his cane clasped in his
hands, resting between his knees, but
his head was bent forward
on his breast, and when they
reached his side he was dead. The fam
lily consisted of wife, young daughter
and son, seventeen years old. The boy
says he left the house fifteen minutes
before the murder. ostenSibly to go to
Montague City to visit some of the boys.
He states with precision the very second
he reached there, and the hour he left
This is most too exact for belief, and
suspicion is entertained by the state de-
tectives who have the case in hand.
Shortly after noon the son was arrested.
charged with the murder An attempt
was made to poison the old gentleman
some time ago, but failed. There was
$40, 200 insurance on Randall's life, and
there are whispers that probability of
willing this TO his sister may have
prompted the son to commit the deed,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01
Davis Wants No Charity.

AUGUSTA, Ca, Nov. 30.-Some time
ago movement was set on foot at
Macon, Ca, to raise by popular sub
scription Jeff Davis fund. The project
was heartily approved by the press and
the people, and babe fair to be
great success, but it has now
fallen through. The following
letter from Mrs. Davis brought about
the abandonment of the project 1t is
addressed to Col. W. HI. Ross. Macon,
Ga, the chairman of the committee hay-
ing the matter in hand:
IF anything could endear me to Onr
friends in Macon it would be the
solicitude manifested for our well
fare throughout, and the love felt for
my husband; but, my dear sir,
let me entreat you to let us thank you
for the effort, but deprecate the accom-
plishment of it. Both my daughter and
| have received an education which
would stand instead of money were
everything to be swept away, which
/ do not contemplate, and
the blessings of freedom and
independence are dearer to us than
wealth and ease, and we should not be
comfortable under this mOneyed Obliga-
ton to those who have given far
greater boon to my husband already
their hearts, / have been thus frank
with you because as Montague says:
1T is you and tits l. / hope you will
act on my letter."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01
The French Republic on the
Brink Of a Terrible Ca
tastrophe.
Harrington and Goschen Are
Given Ample Police Pro-
g. lection at Dublin.
The Funeral of George Ora
: ham. of Rochester, N. Y,
:" Takes Place To-Day.
"A Member of Parliament Gets
g Into Trouble With a
LeWd Woman.
By Cable to the Globe.

By Cable to the Globe.
Is LONDON, Nov. 30.-The problem of
the presidency of the French republic
grows more intricate daily. 1t is now
almost absolutely certain that the Re-
publican factions will not combine,
though they cannot fail to sees that it
will be worse for them if they don't,
and the republic is confronted by the
greatest peril that has ever threatened
its existence. President Grevy has eX-
pressed his determination to cling to his
Office until he knows who has been
chosen as his successor, and it is further
asserted that he will not allow the
newly elected president to succeed him
unless he shall be Conservative, and
entirely acceptable to large majority
of the Republicans, even going to the
length of using military force to pre-
vent his taking possession of the office.
How Nj. GreYy could carry out this
programme, no one can accurately
Judge, but all who know him believe
that he would make the attempt against
almost any odds, if he believed himself
justified therein. If NJ. Clemenceau
should carry the election. or the BOul-
anger extremists succeed in electing
the general, through combinations with
other sections, there will certainly be a
row, and bloody one, at that. The eX
element is great, and party and fac
tional feeling is wrought up to point
where the slightest thing may cause an
outbreak.
ENORMOUS PREPARATIONS
have been made by the police in Dublin
to protect Lord Harrington and Mr..
GOschen from the mob which has been
collected through general evaporation
at the summary treatment OF the youth
Lynch, who was sentenced this morning
to weeks imprisonment at hard labor
for throwing a stone during the Union
list meeting last evening. 1t is not be-
lieved that the two gentlemen are in
any danger during the stay in Dublin,
but it is to their advantage as well as to
that of the police to have it appear that
their peril is very great. Probably moth
ing worse will befall the Unionist
statesmen than that they will be COM
PEELED to listen to some very uncompli-
mentary remarks before leaving the
Irish capital.
THE FUNERAL
of George NJ. Graham, of Rochester, n.
Y, who was killed by Dan Dougherty,
will take place tomorrow and be at
tended by large number of American
sporting men now in London. Various
reports of Dougherty's bad record i'll
America have reached the authorities
here, and will doubtless be used against
him at the trial
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01
LITERARY LEAVES.

The approach of the holiday season is
always heralded by the edition of par
ticularly interesting books, and the pres
ent season is no exception to the general
rule. Holiday books have already begun
to appear. Some of them are:
My Old Kentucky HOme-By S. c.
FOster-TICKNoR 81 Co., BOstOn.-The
volume is beautifully illustrated, and
the famous poem possesses additional
beauty in its new setting.
Blue Jackets of 1872, by w. j. Alb
BOTT: DoDD, MEAD & Co., New York.
is book after boys own heart. 1t deals
with the stirring events OH sea which
every boy is glad to read about, and
would make particularly acceptable
gift.
.HAwTHoRNE'S TanglewOOd Tales,
published by HoUGHToN. MIFFLIN IL
Co., and magnificently illustrated, is
one of the best of holiday books for
boys and girls, and the one who should
get it and not be pleased must indeed
be hard to suit. The illustrations are
gems of art.
In the American Men of Letters
series. edited by Charles DUDLEY WAR
NER, the latest volume is BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN, by J. b. MCMAsTERS. 1t is
published by HOUGHTON, MIFFIIN IL
which have preceded it, no library is
complete without it.
Frau Wilhelmine, by julius STINDE,
CHARLES SCRIBNER's Sons, New York,
is the concluding part of The Buch-
holz Family, and will necessarily be
read by those who have enjoyed this
excellent authors other creations. In
its sketches of Berlin life it is admira-
BILE.
The American Girls Handy Book, by
LENA and ADEIIA BEARD, CHARLES
SCRIBNER's Sons, New York, is an en-
Pertaining book of games and sports
that will render material assistance to
the young folks who may want some
thing new. 1t is handsomely illus
trated.
VICTOR HUGo's Les MiserableS, LIT
TIE, BROWN d Co., Boston, is a book
of which it is impossible to tire, and in
the convenient form in which it is now
published will be found dOubly accept
able.
The How l Was Educated papers,
reprinted from the Forum and pub
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01
They STOPPED to Elect Him.

Rochester Record and Union.
1t is said that Gov McGiIl is so elated
with his gubernatorial honors that he is
actually looking with longing eye to
the United States senate. Strange to
say, with the assistance of the ring he
has already assumed the office of pOliti-
cal director of the Republican party,
and there are none to gainSay or dispute
his will. The first move on the political
chess board is the election of his friend,
Judge StearnS, of Duluth. to congress
from the Fifth district. and so diScredit
Knute Nelson and take the wind out of
his sails, so as to make it impossible for
him to make the United States senate,
if he has any such designs. With Mel
son out of the way he has no fear of any
competitor on the list of possible candi-
dates, and when the time comes the
little governor will have no trouble in
succeeding Sabin in the senate. In the
meantime he confidently expects a
second term as governor, according to
the established custom. At any rate,
he means to make sure of the place by a
judiciOuS beStowal of offices and patron
age where it will do the most good. OF
course the best laid plans of mice and
men often fail, but when the Repub-
licanS stopped to elect McGIll governor
of the state there is no telling how much
further they may go at the dictation of
the corporations and rings. whose Obedi-
ent servant he has always been.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01
O'BRIEN'S ANS WEIR.
The Imprisoned Editor Replies
TO RaIfour's Recent Attack.

William O'Brien, in letter smuggled
from Tullamore Jail to friend in Dub
lin writes: ''The substance of Mr.. Bal
tours letter has been conveyed to me.
Balfour's statement that | pleaded
weak action of the heart and delicate
lungs as an excuse for not being forced
to wear conyict's uniform;is cruel
falsehoOd. l am not aware that /
have such weakness, never declared
that | had. and the medical examiners
never referred to it. My only weakness
is confined to my left lung, and that
don't trouble me at present. If Bal
four is acting under the belief that the
state of my health renders the applica-
ton of brute force dangerous, the
course he has pursued cannot be COM
mended on the score of humanity, for
six days after my cOmmittal | was sub
jected to constant threats of force and
put on bread and water diet. When
this proved fruitleSs, / was
led to believe that the point would not
be further insisted on, and, diSarmed
by this belief, my clothes were stolen.
Since securing new clothes L cannot
change or remove my garments by
night or by day for fear they will be
stolen. No official intimatiOn has yet
been given me that will relieve me OF
the constant strain L undergo. This
letter is my only means of vindicating
myself from Balfour's foul and dishon-
'.orable imputations, and hence forward
u will not speak of my health. / do not
take nourishing food, and in the face of
the intOlerable calumny / leave h0nOra-
bic men to judge of the chivalry of Bal
four
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01
A SOUTHERN BLUEBEARD.
He COnfeSses to the Killing of
Three Wives,

COLUMBIA, S. c., Nov, 3O.-AccOunts
were published ten days ago of horri-
bic wife murder committed by Stephen
Bailey in Berkeley, and the attempted
suicide of the murderer. Bailey yes
terday made confession in the pres
ence of Jailer Harris. Bailey is over
seventy years of age. The substance
of his confession is as follows:
Il have been married three times |
killed my first wife with club. Her
name was Catherine. | buried her in
the garden. and after a while it was
found out, and the people dug her up
and buried her in the graveyard. She
had six children for me. My second
wife'S name was Mary. | killed her
with brick by hitting her in the head.
| will not tell what did with her body.
She had one child, a boy. His
name is Sabey. | don't know where
he is. My third wife's name was Sallie.
She was unfaithful to me for a long
time. My wife and had not been on
good terms for three or four weeks.
That day laid in wait for her in a foot
path and as she came along / hit her
on the head with an axe and killed her
and dragged her body into the bushes
until that night. Then sent my boy
to the yard for wheelbarrow and when
he came | sent him back to the house.
Then l put the body into the wheel
barrow and carried it about mile and
put it in the furnace. At sunrise
started the fire, and about or 9 O'Clock
it was found out. Sallie had seven
children"
The previous butcheries were known.
but it was just after the war, and such
crimes went unpublished. In making
his confession Bailey evinced no re-
pentance for his inhuman murders, and
so hardened had he become that he had
forgotten the details and dates of his
former butcberjeS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01
A GOOD RECORD.

Over 21,0r0,000 acres of the public do
main redeemed for the use of the honest
settler. That is the record of the Dem
Ocratic administration, as is shown by
the report of the secretary of the in
terror department. 1t is a good record,
and one that will stand to the eyerlast-
ing credit of the CLEVELAND admins
tratiOn. But the record is not complete
vet. There is still more of the public
land to be rescued from the grasp of the
greedy land-grabberS. The good work
that has been 50 nObly begun must not
stop until every acre that legitimately
belongs to the government is restored
to its possession. And in addition to
that there are two other matters in con-
nection with the public land admins
trat;on must be looked after. In the
first place, the government must be
Vigilant in protecting the land that it
has rescued. 1t devolves exclusively
upon the president to look after this
branch of the work. 1t all depends upon
the appointment of successors to
SPARKS and LAMAR whether or not the
government will protect itself in this
matter. The second feature is one that
congress will have to look into. In his
report Secretary LAMAR calls attention
of the president to the fact that in many
instances railroad companies claiming
lands under the indemnity law set up
fictitious claims to land for which they
did not even have the shadow of title.
This was done in cases where set
tiers had occupied the lands and
the railroad companies asserted
these fictitious claims solely for
Matchmaking purposes. They did
it to force the settlers into paying
them sums of money to be let alone. 1t
was form of eXtOrtion which amounted
to nothing short of robbery. Congress
should empower the interior department
to ferret out all such cases and TO COM
pei the robbers to make full restitution
to the settlers, or at least the govern
ment could pay back TO the settlers what
has been filched from them in this way,
and then hold back enough of the in
demnity grants to which the railroads
had a legal claim to reimburse itself for
what is paid out to the settlers. 1t is
fair that the government should protect
the homesteader in every particular.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01
The UniOnist Banquet.

DUBLIN, Nov. 30.-The Unionist ban
quet in Leinster hall this evening was a
brilliant affair. The leading merchants
and professional men and number of
Catholic Unionists were present. The
balconies were crowded with ladies.
Lord Harrington and Mr.. Goshen were
given an ovation. The t.. It to the
queen was received with enthusiasm,
everybody rising and joining in the
singing of the national anthem and
God Bless the Prince of Wales" Mr..
Kenny, an eminent Catholic barrister,
in proposing a toast to the UniOnist
cause, denounced home rule as an insid-
ious misnomer, simply meaning the dis
memberment of the empire and the
utter ruin of Ireland. Agitation, he
said, had already destroyed Irish trade
and ruined Irish credit, but there were
hopeful, symptoms that the people were
beginning to find out the real tenden-
eies of the agitatOrs' work. Mr..
Goschen, who responded, said that the
time for any body being neutral toward
the separatists had passed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01
THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
Meeting of the National Central
Committee at Chicago.


Committee at Chicago.
CHICAGO, Nov. 30.-The national cen
trail committee of the Prohibition party
met to-day in Battery ID. There were
probably 500 persons present during the
day. The principal objects of the meet
ing were to select successor to the late
John B. Finch, chairman of the commit
tee; to select a time and place for the
holding of the national convention, and
to discuss ways and means for carrying
on the campaign. Among the most
prominent prohibitiOniStS present were
Gen. Clinton B.Fisk, New Jersey ;ex-Goy.
John p. st. John, of Kansas; Mother
Stewart, of Ohio; j. b. Hobbs and Rev.
A. j. Jutkins, of Chicago. d. P. Sagen-
dorph. vice chairman of the committee.
presided. The treasurer's report
showed that 81, 900 had been paid out for
Gov. st. Johns campaign expenses. A
committee of seven was appointed to
attend to immediate political organiza-
sisted of John Lloyd Thomas, of Mary
land; John p. st. John, of Kansas: J.
A. Vanf1eet. of Illinois; James Black, of
Pennsylvania; Judge r. c. Pittman, of
Massachusetts; A. A. Hopkins, of
New York, and Mrs. Brown.
of Ohio. The national commit
tee, as eventually arranged, was
as follows: Alabama, l.. C. Calison;
Colorado, III. G. Dillon; Connecticut,
George p. Rogers; Dakota, d. r. Grove;
District of Columbia, A. A. Wheelock;
Illinois, A. J. Jutkins, j. A. Vanfleet;
Indiana, John Ratliff, J. S. Hughes;
Iowa, E. w. Brady. V. G. Farnam;
Kansas, A. NJ. Richardson, John z. st.
John; Maryland, John Lloyd Thomas,
William Sherwood; Massachusetts.
f. c. Pittman, c. b. Knight;
Michigan, ID. B. Sangerdorph, A. D.
Power; Minnesota, W. W. Satterlee,
James Princhham; Missouri, James D.,
Baker, f. NJ. Bemis; Nebraska, A. G.
Wolfenbarger, II. A. Hawley; New
Jersey, John Il. Anderson, A. Parsons;
New York. c. ii. Meade, j. Wesley
Jones; North Carolina, Rev. w. F.Wat-
kins, Moses Hammond; Ohio. H.McClellan
Brown. j. Odell; Oregon, j. ii. Armas,
j. Webb; Pennsylvania, James Black,
W. F. Dunn; Rhode Island, Thomas II.
Peabody, III. III. Richardson; Tennes-
see, j. W. Smith; Texas, S. B. CranfilI;
Vermont, c. w. Wyman, Clinton J.
Smith; West Virginia, Frank Burt, J.
ID. Carsadon. Members at large, Fran
ces Z. Willard, Mother Stewart, A. A.
Hopkins.
At the afternoon session Samuel
Dickey, of Albion, Mich, was elected
chairman to succeed Mr.. Finch, and it
was decided to hold the national con-
vention during the first week in June,
1888, at Indianapolis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01
HERR MOST,S CONVICTION.

Herr MoST has been in prison so
often that he really feels out of place
unless looking through iron bars. He
was six times c0Avict in Europe, and
is now under conviction the second time
since he has been in America. 1t
would perhaps be better for Mr.. MOST,
and certainly Just a5 we'll for the rest of
mankind, if he were permanently
locked up. He is not a particularly
dangerous man. 1t is not the barking
dog that bites nor the kissing viper that
strikes. MosT is a garrulous old
fellow whose brain gets muddled
over the fumes of his ale, and
when in that condition talks a
great deal of SeditiOus stuff. There
are perhaps a thousand anarchists in
New York who are more dangerous
enemies to society than Herr MOsT.
But they don't talk, and the law can't
get them in its clutches. SO, after all,
JOHN MOST'S real usefulness consists
in being made an example of. He is
useful fellow in his way. Every time
that anarchism gets too rank for the
comfort of New York society Herr
Mosr is sure to bob up with some of his
incendiary lingo, and he is Immediately
gobbled up and hustled off to Jail just to
show the other anarchists that it is
liberty and not license that is tolerated
in this land of freedom. Probably the
New York authorities will not give
MosT a long sentence. They may need
him on the outside again in a short
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01
RUINED BY VICE.
A Member of Parliament Bank
rupted by His Mistress.

; LONDON, Nov. 30.-William Copeland
Borlase, member of parliament for the
st. AuStelle division of Cornwall and
under secretary of the local government
board, was examined to-day in the bank
ruptcy court. His liabilities amount to
e42.6 53, and his assets to e6,371. He
traces part of his embarrassment to his
relations with his mistress, Mime. de
OuiroS, whom he allowed fixed income
of e25 week. At first the payments
were made willingly, but subsequently
the money was eXtOrted from him, the
woman following him to France, Spain
and finally to Wales, where he was
forced to obtain police protection against
her and her male companion. The last
$500 he gave her was paid in Trafalgar
square. She was passing in cab, when
she saw him and stopped the cab. made
him get in and go with her to bank
and get the money. She accused him of
deeds he never committed. and on one
occasion, at 2 o'clock in the morning,
forced her way into his wife's bed room
and told of her relations with Mr.. BOr-
lase. Since that time, he said, his life
had been made misery to him. Al
though he owed her nothing she still
pretended to have claims against him.
At this point the examination was adj
jOurned. The case is exciting much in
tereSt.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-01

l;shed by d. APPLETON & Co., New
York, will be appreciated by those who
did not have access to these interesting
experiences of prominent men when
their stories were first printed.
APPLETON IL Co., New York, also
publish The Advance of Science in
the Last Half Century, by HUXLEY,
and Henry George versus Henry
George, an interesting review of the
land reformer'S theories. Both will re-
pay perusal.
Calamity Row, by J. r. MUsIcK,
RAND, MCNALLY & Co., Chicago, is
described as the ong-:oOked-for Ameri-
can novel, and really is book of
strength and merit. 1t deals with the
various phases of New York life, high
and low, and will be read with interest.
NOTES.
Scribner's Magazine for December,
the holiday number, is verltable liter
airy treat. The stories are admirable,
BRET HARTE'S Drift from from Red
wood Camp" being quite in his old-time
vein; and the illustrations are, of course,
excellent.
The London Illustrated News, Amer
lean edition, published in New York,
maintains its usual high standard of OK
cellence and is winning a deserved
place on this side OF the water.
Capt. GLAZIER's new book, Down
the Mississippi, now being sold by sub
scription. gives an interesting account
of the captains voyage down the great
river in canoe after his self-claimed
discovery of that streams source. The
volume is very readable Oh account of
its local coloring. whatever one may
think of the captains claims, and is well
worth the price asked.